Word: huttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come off. A multimillionaire (Cecil Kellaway), plagued by deathbed conscience, leaves a million dollars to a secretary (Joyce Reynolds) who believes that life is just like all the movies she sees. She knows, accordingly, that money is the root of all evil, and will spoil her marriage with Robert Hutton, a bitter young writer. As it turns out, he is thoroughly satisfied; but she can't believe it and hurries off to Reno. Best idea in the picture: the husband becomes a national hero among men, a national monster among women, by demanding alimony...
Born. To Count Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 52, and his second heiress-wife, Margaret Drayton Reventlow, 31 (great-granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor): a son, her first, his second (his first was by Heiress Barbara Hutton); in Newport, R.I. Name: Richard Court. Weight...
...breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish movie clichés. Johnny Green's score (best songs: Something in the Wind, I'm Happy Go Lucky and Free, The Turntable...
Perils of Pauline. Betty Hutton in a brassy, amusing biography of Pearl White, queen of the silent serials (TIME, July...
...salon by 10 and works straight through, often without lunch, until 6. Her corner office is tiny (12 ft. by 15 ft.). Her desk has a bargain-basement clutter of sketches, snapshots and a teacup or two. For her big-spending customers, such as Mrs. E. F. Hutton, Mrs. Pierre du Pont and Mrs. James Van Alen, Sophie usually pops out of her office and plays salesgirl herself. She is quite a salesgirl, and can usually manage to charm the customers into wearing what she thinks they should. Before an adamantine customer who knows exactly what she wants, regardless, Sophie...